Young guns: An empirical study of persons who use a firearm in a suicide or a homicide

Injury Prevention

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 280-283

  Sorenson, Susan B ^a   Berk, Richard A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Firearms; Homicide; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; FIREARM; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FIREARMS; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; SUICIDE;

EID: 0033254928     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.5.4.280     Document Type: Article

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